You'd think missing the team's best player would make the rest of them play harder. Not with this group.

Why do you always think when KU isnt winning they arent trying hard enough. For that matter why do so many fans buy into this bullshit argument. Winning and losing a basketball game is rarely about who ''tried'' harder. Its almost always about who has superior coaching, talent, home court advantage, and just dumb luck.

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Why do you always think when KU isnt winning they arent trying hard enough. For that matter why do so many fans buy into this bullshit argument.

Because I understand what I'm watching and therefore am able to notice when a team isn't giving any effort defensively (and KU didn't for the entirety of the first half). Do you seriously think the fact that TCU stopped scoring in the 2nd half had nothing to do with KU raising its intensity level?

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Winning and losing a basketball game is rarely about who ''tried'' harder.

Effort always plays a role. Players don't bring a consistent level of that from game to game (or in the case of this version of KU, from minute to minute). This is even more obvious in professional basketball with its 82 game schedule (where players often float around defensively during the regular season until the final few minutes of each game, before turning it up consistently in the playoffs). Not exactly sure how that is a point of contention.

Why do you always think when KU isnt winning they arent trying hard enough. For that matter why do so many fans buy into this bullshit argument. Winning and losing a basketball game is rarely about who ''tried'' harder. Its almost always about who has superior coaching, talent, home court advantage, and just dumb luck.

In this case it is all effort. TCU did some things, but it was effort.